They replaced links to crypto exhange Binance with their own affiliate links that they profit from without the users concent. It's bad because they did it behind their user's backs hoping no one would notice. Makes me question what else they're not telling me about.

Brave had a thing where if you went to website.com, they would add /ref=brave to the URL so they get a kickback as if you clicked on their referral link.

Sneaky? Sure. A huge scandal? I don't think so. No user data was being collected, no privacy was being violated. If I was the company doing the referral system I'd be mad, but as a user, it does not affect me at all.

Firefox fanatics just need something to point to and say "brave bad firefox good" and that is the worst thing they can find on Brave. It's all browser wars to them, like iPhone vs Android or Xbox vs Playstation.

The article in this post also does not affect users in anyway, and has been updated after Brave responded, with most of the worst claims of the article now retracted.